WhatsApp users in India witnessed a new wave of scam where cyber-criminals started calling people on the platform from fake US numbers, pretending to be their senior office executives and colleagues, thus trying to give their modus operandi a new level of authenticity. People working for a leading media company in the Capital, and even those who have quit the organisation, received numerous such fake international calls — this time from US-based fake phone numbers — from top executives, asking them to start conversation. “Please get back to me as soon as you get my text, thanks,” read such messages, with names of the top executives.
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